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Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I still don’t understand why they designed the case like this, the charger should easily fit inside without this “hole”

Not that I complain, they give everyone a case with the console, which is awesome but I personally got a slightly bigger one with enough room to store the charger, wireless earbuds and a cloth for the screen.

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FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Feel free to complain. I love my steam deck, but this case wasn’t free. We all paid for one, we just didn’t have the ability to opt out. And yeah, strange design for something they put so much effort into.

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- axo@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, we paid probably what the case costs for valve to make… so like 3$ maybe…? Id say that is pretty much “for free”
  
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  - FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe yours was $3, but mine has super rare limited edition white zipper pulls…
    
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highenergyphysics@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A likely reason is that not only will plug and brick sizes vary by region, but if storage was internal, people would just start throwing their shit inside and closing it.

This would scratch the screen to shit, if not outright break it. Additionally, people’s wires and cloths and earbuds could crush the analog sticks or other inputs. Which, analog sticks famously hate.

Shoving the charger in the little sack and having it protrude covered by elastic is an elegant and slim solution to all of this.

I don’t think you people understand how much of the human population are mouthbreathing morons. They treat their expensive stuff like shit and wonder why it’s broken after two months.

I’m not some case freak either, I use my SD with zero third party accessories and my phone is nude as well. It’s fine because I don’t treat my stuff like shit.

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Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, the Stream Controller case has internal compartments for the accessories, and it does feel more contained.

My guess is this was an easier/cheaper case solution that also gave people easy external storage access—you don’t have to open the case to get the accessories. I think I prefer internal, so I’ll be getting a different case eventually, too.

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- SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I use a third party case with an internal compartment, and I think I prefer external. When I am out and about, not using my Deck, and want to pull out my charger to charge my phone or something, I have to pull out the Deck in order to get to that compartment. If the compartment were on the outside of the case, it would be simpler to get to.
  
  With that said, I do not trust the elastic strap on the official case to keep things secure out there. So I keep using my third party case.
  
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therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They were out of canvas

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radswid@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The EU-Charger fits inside…

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Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The North American charger should fit, no? I’m in Korea where we’ve got big honking plugs, and I could probably squeeze it in if I tried.

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- usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It “fits”, but the elastic is easy to snag/bump and the charger cord wants to jump out in all directions any chance it gets. It also then stops the case from resting flat when “rightside up” which isn’t great either.
  
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  - Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That does not sound ideal.
    
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- 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I fit mine back there after coiling up the cable. It’s not very secure, but it works
  
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